{"id":761,"date":"2017-12-03T03:12:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T03:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/?p=761"},"modified":"2017-12-03T03:12:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T03:12:15","slug":"claires-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/2017\/12\/03\/claires-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Claire’s Article"},"content":{"rendered":"

A quick shout-out to our classmate, Claire, who penned a crisp and comprehensive article<\/a> for the UW Daily<\/em>\u00a0about mindfulness in the classroom. A talented journalist, Claire interviews a few experts on campus while weaving in her own findings from the quarter in Honors 392. She calls attention to three alliterative components within mindfulness: “presence, personhood, and perspective.” When outlined as such, we can see how this non-traditional teaching method is really crucial to a college setting.<\/p>\n

Why’s that? Well, for one, I’d rather not spend four years’ tuition only to discover, upon graduation, that I haven’t been following my heart. By checking it with myself often, via meditation, I can gauge whether I’m sincerely pursuing my passions (two more P words for you!) Fifteen minutes of meditation today may save us a quarter- or mid-life crisis down the line.<\/p>\n

As for our “increasingly distracted<\/a>” state, mindfulness is the breather we need (for sanity’s sake!) Meditation takes us offline, away from Twitter’s covfefe cacophony–and helps us tune into the neural network and the “voice” inside. Here, a regeneration, a moment to heal. Here, some time to re-focus and refine one’s attention. How else will we counteract cognitive burnout? Refuel with some easy breaths, sigh out obligations, and then return to your studies revived.<\/p>\n

Learning doesn’t occur in a vacuum, and we are certainly not “empty vessels,” as Claire notes. To better familiarize one’s self of personal biases, moods, memories, stress levels, is a main goal of mindfulness. Once aware of those “peripheral details,” one has a better grasp on why incoming information is felt or filed a certain way. [Also, as tangent: Herein lies the importance of\u00a0a diverse student body: your classmates’ aren’t “empty vessels” either. We each come to class with a different major, quirk, purpose for being there. A syllabus will not land the same with each pupil. For example, I found Active Hope<\/em> to be an elucidating and inspirational book; maybe my classmate Tim doesn’t feel the same way. It’s important to hear why–to recognize the validity and utility of another’s ideas.]<\/p>\n

Thank you, Claire, for bringing this topic to the Daily.\u00a0<\/em>I do hope the dawg pack takes a mindful moment to consider your words and the opinions of Professors Levy and Browning. In the words of the latter:\u00a0\u201cResearch is showing us this is the way to go.\u201d It isn’t a mere trend: it may prove to be the next revolution in academia. Ohm on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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